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THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION

THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,950,801 to it, the largest being WILLIAM H & SADIE R CUTTER TRUST FUND INC ($504,780). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.

Revenue FY2025
$2.6M
Funders on record
31
Grants received
$2.0M
Net assets
$23M
18/31 repeat funders

Hosts funds for others

THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programTHE SUMMIT FOUNDATION runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.

Paid out

$6.8M

Recipients

88

Contributions on record

$2.0M

Donors on record

31

Payments out run 3.5x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.

01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($17M)2018 Revenue 47 ($2.0M) Expenses 72 ($1.0M) Net assets 94 ($16M)2020 Revenue 18 ($758k) Expenses 93 ($1.3M) Net assets 107 ($19M)2021 Revenue 36 ($1.5M) Expenses 82 ($1.2M) Net assets 121 ($21M)2022 Revenue 26 ($1.1M) Expenses 79 ($1.1M) Net assets 103 ($18M)2023 Revenue 38 ($1.6M) Expenses 105 ($1.5M) Net assets 112 ($19M)2024 Revenue 62 ($2.5M) Expenses 78 ($1.1M) Net assets 120 ($21M)2025 Revenue 62 ($2.6M) Expenses 135 ($1.9M) Net assets 134 ($23M)
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Revenue (62)Expenses (135)Net assets (134)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $21M to $18M (−15%).

$17M
$16M
$19M
$21M
$18M
$19M
$21M
$23M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.7M
’17
$930k
’18
−$561k
’20
$324k
’21
−$43k
’22
$55k
’23
$1.4M
’24
$643k
’25
4.9
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed2019212121202122
Joined·+4·+2+3+4+5+1
No longer listed·5·23540
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 16 funders, grant income fell $809k → $170k.

11 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

51% of THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $950k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from New Jersey funders.

NY
PA
NJ
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 7%Fundraising 1%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

62%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NJ

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION?
THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,950,801 to it, the largest being WILLIAM H & SADIE R CUTTER TRUST FUND INC ($504,780). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
How many funders does THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,950,801 in grants to THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION?
WILLIAM H & SADIE R CUTTER TRUST FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $504,780 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 31 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing